A new offensive term for a parasitic person who "ride someone's coat tails", and claims your social success as their own
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton played coat-tails to one another; Obama continued Bill Clinton's liberal policies and Hilary Clinton wanted to succeed Barack Obama in 2016.
When one's coat goes missing from a public place except the coat that is gone missing was worse than the coat that is left for you to take..
You go into a hair salon. Take off your coat and hang it up. Then when you are leaving you put your coat back on. Next you reach into your pocket to find your ipod. While doing so you realize your coat is softer. Then you notice the zipper is different. Then you finally notice that it is not your coat but instead a very similar and newer coat of the same brand. You go back into the hair salon and your actual coat is no where to be found. But wait, you have the newer coat. Therefore this coat jacking has resulted in you getting the better deal. Coat jacking... somebody is going home in a new coat.